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\X/ VGA256.-.Mages.and.Modems.A.Childhood.Well-Wasted.in.the.Golden.Age. \X/
/X\ of.Personal.Computers.Games.and.Internet.Piracy.2026.RETAiL.EPUB. /X\
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\X/ [RELEASE DATE]>> ............ 2026-01-27 \X/
/X\ [LANGUAGE]>> ................ ENGLISH /X\
\X/ [FORMAT]>> .................. EBOOK/EPUB \X/
/X\ [DiSKS]>> ................... 50MB x 1 /X\
\X/ [TYPE]>> .................... RETAIL \X/
/X\ [GENRE]>> ................... History / Scene / Warez / Culture /X\
\X/ [PUBLiSHER]>> ............... Tomodashi \X/
/X\ [AUTHOR]>> .................. vga256 /X\
\X/ [ISBN]>> .................... 978-1-0699885-1-5 \X/
/X\ [PAGES]>> ................... 385 /X\
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/X\ [URL]>> ..................... https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems /X\
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:X: Mages & Modems: A Childhood Well-Wasted in the Golden Age of Personal :X:
:X: Computers, Games, and Internet Piracy :X:
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:X: a confessional by vga256 :X:
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:X: Did you grow up with bulletin board systems and UNIX shell accounts? :X:
:X: Or hang around with other kids just because they had a Sega Master :X:
:X: System or Nintendo Entertainment System? How many hours of your life :X:
:X: were spent installing games from floppy disk, like Leisure Suit Larry :X:
:X: or Monkey Island or Ultima? Did you skip entire days of work or :X:
:X: school because you were playing Ultima Online with thousands of other :X:
:X: strangers using dial-up modems? :X:
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:X: If any of those names spark a memory, Mages & Modems will bring you :X:
:X: back to a time when the Internet was delivered over telephone lines :X:
:X: and video games were distributed on floppy disks and cartridges. Each :X:
:X: chapter is a short personal history of 1980s and 1990s technology as :X:
:X: remembered by an awkward kid growing up in a world racing towards the :X:
:X: digital age. :X:
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:X: If you're looking for laughs at my expense, want some heartwarming :X:
:X: memories of retrocomputing and gaming, or just want to know what it :X:
:X: was really like to grow up with old computers and consoles and the :X:
:X: early Internet, this is the book for you. :X:
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:X: Each byte-sized chapter is short enough to read through while you're :X:
:X: waiting for your compiler to finish building, or for the next stop on :X:
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:X: This eBook edition is identical to the print edition in terms of :X:
:X: content, and all proceeds go directly to the author instead of a 3rd :X:
:X: party publisher. If you'd prefer a printed paperback copy, it is :X:
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:X: 385 pages (based on 5.25" x 8" paperback edition) :X:
:X: 110,000 words :X:
:X: Estimated 8 hours average total reading time :X:
:X: ISBN-10: 1069988515 :X:
:X: ISBN-13: 978-1-0699885-1-5 :X:
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:X: Tags: 1980s, 1990s, Amiga, apple, humour, nintendo, No AI, nostalgia, :X:
:X: retrocomputing, sega, Warez, BBS, scene :X:
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:X: Special greetings fly out to all our friends over the decades in :X:
:X: the scene. You know who you are. Much love and respect to all around! :X:
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